Good Thursday morning, happy first day of June. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing, sponsored by Morgan Stanley. Today at 3 p.m., Donald Trump will announce whether the United States becomes the third nation on the planet to ditch the Paris Climate Agreement. The other two are Syria, which is in the throes of a civil war, and Nicaragua, which thinks the agreement does not go far enough. The battle lines have long been drawn, and Andrew Rastucci and Josh Dossi laid them out.

EPA director Scott P. and Nicaragua, which thinks the agreement does not go far enough. The battle lines have long been

drawn, and Andrew Rastucci and Josh Dossi lay them out. EPA director Scott Pruitt and Steve

Bannon and Steve Bannon and Trump, Rex Tillerson, and Gary Cohn, think he should stay in the

accord to some degree. All the reporting so far seems to indicate he'll drop out of the deal. But

sources tell us there still could be a moment where Trump could try to seek a, quote, better deal. From the Boston Globe, the city of Boston has scrapped his summit with China on climate. Read playbook today for a new feature, the Dawsey download, where our own Josh Dawsey explained what's going on in the White House. From the New York Times, Jim Comey is expected to testify next week in front of the Senate

unless Donald Trump invokes executive privilege and blocks him. Austin Wright reports that the House

Russia investigation has issued a subpoena for Michael Flynn and longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.

The Trump administration, according to the Washington Post, is in the process of handing back

vacation compounds on the eastern shore of Maryland and in New York to Russia. CBS is in the process of handing back vacation compounds on the eastern shore of

Maryland and in New York to Russia. CBS is in search for somebody to replace Scott Pelly and

names include Nora O'Donnell, Willie Geist, and Jake Tapper. We hear that they want a woman in the mix.

Barack Obama has bought Joe Lockhart's house. Obama was previously renting the mansion, but has bought it

for $8.1 million. Joe Biden has started a

political action committee raising questions about 2020. Come on, Joe, are you going to do it?

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